Benchmarks: Sandra 2005, POVray

Sandra is
designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the
individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not
represent real world performance. Higher numbers are better.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark
Results

Multimedia Benchmark

CPU Benchmark

Memory Benchmark

Processors

Integer SSE2:

Floating-Point
SSE2:

Dhrystone SSE2:

Whetstone SSE2:

Integer SSE2:

FloatSSE2:

Pentium 4 540

24239

32071

10011

4082 FPU / 7070 SSE2

5374

5359

Athlon64 3800+

22684

24395

10228

3753 FPU / 4894 SSE2

6060

6011

Athlon64 4000+

22893

24716

10981

3491FPU /5118 SSE2

6105

6050

Athlon64 X2 4800+

45781

49521

20272

7608 FPU / 9852 SSE2

5828

5777

Athlon64 X2 4800+ 64-bit

36025

55718

23874

8583 FPU / 10044 SSE2

5846

5811

Pentium D 840

36238

42965

17409

4621 FPU / 7950
SSE2

4906

4904

Pentium D 840
(4.02GHz)

44929

47590

18113

5737 FPU / 8711
SSE2

6092

6095

Pentium D 840
64-bit

39336

63726

18191

4970 FPU / 8774
SSE2

5106

5106

Units:

it/s

it/s

MIPS

MFLOPS

MB/s

MB/s

Both
dual-core processors post extremely impressive CPU numbers here. These are the
highest figures we've ever seen in Sandra, bar none! The Intel Pentium D 840 and
its 955X Express platform seem to lack in bandwidth though, which could be
holding the combination back. Overclocking removes this restriction.

The
Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer (POV-Ray) is an all round excellent package,
but there are two things that particularly make it stand out above the rest of
the crowd. Firstly, it's free, and secondly, the source is distributed so you
can compile it on virtually any platform .